Hardback green leatherbound, with gold lettering, top edge gilt and gilt illustration. With green marbled endpapers and green marker ribbon. In fine condition. With green cloth-covered slipcase in very good condition. First published in 1982, from an edition of 500 copies. Illustrated with 7 colour plates and 64 text photographs. Pp 352. Foreword by Sir David Wills, acknowledgements and general reflections, with conclusion and index. Comprehensive fishing book with chapters about fishing the various rivers in the UK, considerations of salmon fishing, behaviour of fishermen, flies and fly maki...View More...

Hardback in very good condition, complete with dustwrapper in very good condition, price clipped. First edition, pp vii, 230, with graphs, figures,list of maps and figures, abbreviations, bibiography and index. A study in regional adaptation in the fishing industries in Scotland, by Aberdeen University. S3.View More...

Hardback, with leather spine, light brown cloth covered with gilt illustration on the front cover and gilt lettering on spine, with red ribbon page marker. In Fine condition. In light brown slipcase, in fine condition. The first edition was printed in 1886, This special edition is from the Flyfisher's Classic Library and one of 1000 unnumbered copies. Pp viii, 136,with colour plates and b&w illustrations, with index. A book about the methods of dressing artificial flies for trout and grayling. Chapters on how to use eyed-hooks, materials and implements for fly-fishing, on dying, on how to dr...View More...

Hardback, with leather spine, light brown cloth covered with gilt illustration on the front cover and gilt lettering on spine, with red ribbon page marker. In Fine condition. In light brown slipcase, in fine condition. The first edition was printed in 1886, This special edition is from the Flyfisher's Classic Library and one of 1000 unnumbered copies. Pp viii, 136,with colour plates and b&w illustrations, with index. A book about the methods of dressing artificial flies for trout and grayling. Chapters on how to use eyed-hooks, materials and implements for fly-fishing, on dying, on how to dr...View More...

Illustrated card covers, some minor shelfwear but otherwise in Near Fine condition. First paperback edition, pp 280, b&w illustrations, notes, bibliography, index. A distinct branch of the multi-faceted fishing industry, trawling dates back at least to the 1370s when attempts were made to prohibit the use of a primitive trawling device, the 'wondyrychoun' on the Thames. But it was not until the late 18th century that the beam trawl was deployed to any great extent, the fishermen of Barking and Brixham claiming credit for pioneering the technique. Thereafter, particularly from the 1840s, traw...View More...

First edition paperback in Fine condition. Pp ix,101, with b&w photographs and illustrations, maps and tables. An account of the changes and developments in the housing of the rural communities of northern Scotland - in new crofts, planned villages and fishing settlements, mostly designed to house labourers, craftsmen, merchants and fishermen and thus aid economic development. S3.View More...

Illustrated card covers in Fine condition. First edition, pp 159, b&w illustrations, bibliography. Morecambe Bay is an area about ten miles across and eighteen long, a bay open to the south-west with a 30ft tidal range. Brought to national attention in 2005 after the tragic deaths of 21 cockle pickers, it consists of huge sand-flats at low tide and for the fishermen there are plentiful and diverse pickings of cockles, shrimps, prawns and whitefish. Several bustling towns fringe the coast, including Barrow-in-Furness, renowned for its shipbuilding, Ulverston with its short canal, Grange-over-...View More...

Publisher:
The Journal of the Salmon and Trout Association, 1941.: 1941

Seller ID: 2330

Condition: Very Good

Magazine in illustrated paper wraps, with slight edgewear, fading to the covers and marking but otherwise in Very Good condition. Pages 193 - 276, with b&w illustrations, graphs and advertising. The Journal of the Salmon and Trout Association. Number 103, September 1941. With frontispiece photo of Major Anthony Buxton Fishing on the Aline. Articles include: Fishing Terriers: The History of Jane and her Predecessors by Major Anthony Buxton. Repairing Banks by Bolsters; Phosphorous Content of Trout Streams by J. C. Mottram; Insect Pests: Fly Fishermen's Forgotten Underwater Foes by Eric Hardy;...View More...

Hardback, in Good condition - some shelfwear, dust wrapper in Poor condition with clear archival wrapper (not price clipped) - wear along spine causing tears and some small stains; First edition, pp xvi, 123, b&w illustrations including frontispiece, appendix. A collection of adventures and tales of Whitby fishermen and sailors. SCARCE. SIGNED BY AUTHOR (including personal correspondence between a previous owner and the author) S6.View More...

Deeside Books is a bookshop located in the centre of the village of Ballater on Royal Deeside, and we are on the main A93 Aberdeen to Braemar road. We are predominantly an out of print bookshop with a stock of about 10,000 titles covering a wide selection of subjects.